Desert Island Discs

Sue Lawley's castaway is film director John Boorman.Favourite track: Symphony No 7 Second Movement by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Karl Jung Luxury: Telescope

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Baroness Blackstone.She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about her political radicalisation at the London School of Economics in the 1960s, the difficulties of working motherhood and the different demands of her varied professional life encompassing the academic, political and public worlds.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Cosi fan Tutte Soave Sia Il Vento by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Middlemarch by George Eliot Luxury: Tennis wall, balls and racket

Sue Lawley's castaway is chef Anton Edelmann.Favourite track: Clarinet Concerto in A by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Rinpoche Luxury: Wok

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the jockey and racing journalist Lord Oaksey. He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about how he decided to give up a career in the law to become a junior racing correspondent on the Daily Telegraph and about his time as an amateur jockey when he rode 200 winners and nearly won the Grand National in 1963.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Jerusalem by Blake/Parry Book: Mr Mulliner's Memoirs by P G Wodehouse Luxury: Cargo of champagne

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is Professor Richard Gregory. He is a scientist who comes from a long line of academics - his father was an astronomer who recruited him at an early age to help build a homemade aeroplane, the 'flying flea', but luckily the project was abandoned before its fatal design fault was discovered. Professor Gregory has gone on since then to invent robots, hearing aids, special telescopes for astronauts, and to set up his famous foundation - the Exploratory in Bristol - which is visited by thousands of people every year.He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his passion for investigation and invention and about his mission to lift the fog of ignorance which surrounds so many people when it comes to scientific matters.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Piano Sonata No 30 in E Opus 109 by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: An astronomy book by Patrick Moore Luxury: Astronomical telescope

Sue Lawley's castaway is writer David Croft.Favourite track: Not While I'm Around by Cleo Laine Book: Collected Poems by Sir John Betjeman Luxury: Piano

Sue Lawley's castaway is politician Ken Livingstone.Favourite track: Joe Hill by Paul Robeson Book: The Myths of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley Luxury: The BBC World Service

Sue Lawley's castaway is director Elijah Moshinsky.Favourite track: Requiem: Agnes Dei by Giuseppe Verdi Book: Michael Frayn translation of Complete Plays by Anton Chekhov Luxury: A duvet

Sue Lawley's castaway is civil servant Sir Robin Butler.Favourite track: Messiah I Know That My Redeemer Liveth by George Frideric Handel Book: Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy Luxury: A bag of golf clubs and golf balls

Sue Lawley's castaway is psychiatrist Anthony Storr.Favourite track: String Quintet No 3 in G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust Luxury: Piano